Gorizont 2 (Gorizont 12L), a Soviet geostationary communications satellite for the YeSSS system providing telephone, telegraph, TV, and radio relay. Proton-K/DM from Baikonur Site 200/40; second Gorizont flight after the 1978 prototype.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 66 Proton-K/DM flights
- Date and time
- 5 July 1979, 23:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/DM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1979-062
- Launches in 1979
- 63rd of 110
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